Haven't done one of these tutorial in a while. And since while I was drawing this Coca-Cola piece I was making separate copies of em I thought I might as well put em together and create a 'making of..' artwork. Enjoy!

1. I begin with a very sketchy draft, a draft which I don't care about accuracy, detail or proportion. I try to let my mind go free, let my inner soul emerge onto the blank page. My hand loosely wander around on the graphic tablet like a drunken man on the street.

2. I then take a look at my current progress and can't help but vomit, something needs to be done about this mindless scribble. I start a new layer and redo every single line until it doesn't look rough anymore.

3. Then I would imagine what this artwork would look like with the proper lighting. Where are the lights coming from? The usual answer is 'top'... I would then add a very basic shadow just so that I kinda know what I wanna achieve at the end.

4. Not a care in the world I would randomly splash paint all over my artwork, messing around with the colors until the right 'tone' comes out. This is another step where I loosen up before I try to be accurate.

5. Now that we have some colors on the page, I would rethink what I actually want on the final image. I now start refining everything.. From colors to details on the characters, oh look the girl on the left even had a sex change!

6. I add details to everything now, I zoom in a lot and try to give each character a personality.

7. The cola blobs starts to have a proper face, the robot now has a logo, everyone is happy.

8. I thought the sky looks a little bit empty.. its pretty much just a boring sky with a lot of cola blobs flying around.. what can I add to make it more interesting? A COLA TORNADO! It really brought the artwork alive didn't it?

9. And now the cola tornado has curves.. I also fixed up the colors a bit, added tiny pieces of details, sprayed on a reflective shine on the cola blobs and there we have it! Also important is to add your name down the bottom so people knows who drew this. I am Ry-Spirit. Thanks for reading if you are still with us.

Final image can be viewed here [link] , please head over and fav it if u like.

AWESOME tutorial!! Just one question though: What program you using?? I am DEEPLY SORRY if you get this question ALL the time but I'm working in Corel Painter for school and Photoshop for personal drawings and I was just wondering where you worked this piece in.

@w@ OMGosh! THIS is what i been wanting to see ALL the time. THANK YOU SO SO Much! with your permission, i will Studie this "making Of" -can learn alot from You. ^_^

And i see how the Girl in red top changed into a Guy in Blue hehehe, Why? but, WOW Soo much Work that gone into this. amazing. ^_^ Makes me apreciate it so much more. Im sure You are Super Proud of yurself hey ;D.

Thank You again for this "making of" Oh and i believe i did FAv it. ;D

"My hand loosely wander around on the graphic tablet like a drunken man on the street."reminds me of an oc street fighter i was going to make...did you try to color the coke monsters a bit darker? i think it might be interesting to see more black/white/red...

there are other softwares out there that are similar, like Sai or Gimp. i never tried.. but you may wanna giv it a go. If not then just stick to traditional drawing, if done properly it can be just as good

i tend to merge layers once i think it feels good, so usually i only have 2 to 3 layers going on, then merge and add another layer, then merge etc etc. Step 5 i am painting over it. Step 4 however is a multiply layer

Thanks so much for posting this! Your process is really interesting and I hope to incorporate step 4 in some of my drawings to learn from it. ^^ The way you color and the atmosphere you create always astounds me. ^^^ I found "I then take a look at my current progress and can't help but vomit," interesting because there are many times that I like my sketches because they have a freedom/organicness that's hard to convey in my lineart, so i spend a lot of time trying to recapture that when I ink... then and again, none of my drawings have the same "finished" look that yours do. ^^